I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes. — Don Imus Copy Share Image
I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since. — Lou Henry Hoover Copy Share Image
Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did. — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
The election of Hoover...should result in continued prosperity for 1929. — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him. — John Sherman Cooper Copy Share Image
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. — Gale Norton Copy Share Image
I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything.… — Gail Porter Copy Share Image
I spilled some vodka on the carpet, and I vacuumed it up, and the vacuum got drunk. I had to take the… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started. — Rexford Tugwell Copy Share Image
Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of… — Tim Johnson Copy Share Image
I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to… — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I think somebody's marketing a thing that Hoovers up your Twitter and it will continue tweeting for you after you're dead. I… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Fashion is a vampiric thing, it's the hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from… — Isabella Blow Copy Share Image
While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
It's easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
Coolidge liked the dignity of the presidency. He didn't get on the phone easily. It's possible that he banished the phone from… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“Hoover’s attention to the case had waxed and waned over the years, but he had become so agitated about the growing criticism… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Three generations later, viewed from the standpoint of the digital age, a structure such as Hoover can appear to suffer from a… — Kevin Fedarko Copy Share Image
J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did. — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
They [FBI] had a lot of clippings, a lot of articles I'd written. And to me the - the funniest one was… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Hoover also loved new media the way Millennials do now. He was the first person to ever appear on television. As commerce… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
We're interested in complex characters and he's a complex character, [J. Edgar] Hoover. I like these types of dramas. I've made a… — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
![“[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character.” quote by Clint Eastwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/327/clint-eastwood-513_character_j-edgar-hoover-i-m-sure-felt-that-he-was_185739.jpg)
![“They [FBI] had a lot of clippings, a lot of articles I'd written. And to me the - the funniest one was - I had done a piece for Playboy about J. Edgar Hoover.” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fdc/nat-hentoff-1615_articles_they-fbi-had-a-lot-of-clippings-a-lot-of_1036896.jpg)
![“It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research.” quote by Dustin Lance Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/538/dustin-lance-black-4536_book_it-s-an-incredible-education-for-the-mov_699402.jpg)
![“I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film.” quote by Clint Eastwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6bb/clint-eastwood-513_certain_i-have-great-respect-for-the-fbi-and-i-k_648960.jpg)
![“To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock pot of eccentricities. We couldn't even fit all his eccentricities into [ the same named] movie.” quote by Dustin Lance Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/688/dustin-lance-black-4536_believable_to-me-you-couldn-t-write-a-character-lik_1012862.jpg)
![“We're interested in complex characters and he's a complex character, [J. Edgar] Hoover. I like these types of dramas. I've made a few of them and I'm also interested in power structures so it just has elements that fascinate me, and the more you learn about Hoover, the more polarizing you realize…” quote by Brian Grazer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/981/brian-grazer-10816_character_we-re-interested-in-complex-characters-a_837343.jpg)